Enabling Pharmacy Nomination

The following Pharmacy Nomination options are available:

  • View - Enables your patients to view their preferred pharmacy, and in England they can also see their Electronic Prescription Services (EPS) Nominated Pharmacy.
  • Update - England only, enables your patients to update their EPS Nominated Pharmacy which in turn updates the Patient Demographic Service (PDS):

The View and Update (England only) Pharmacy Nomination is enabled by default.

Updating Pharmacy Nomination for your Practice

To update the Online Services - Pharmacy Nomination option for all of your patients:

  1. From Control Panel - File Maintenance, select Online .
  2. From Pharmacy Nomination:
    • View - Tick/untick to enable/disable your patients ability to see:
      • Their Preferred Pharmacy, as set up in Patient Details.
      • England only - Both their Preferred Pharmacy and their Nominated EPS Pharmacy.
    • Update - England only - To enable/disable your patients ability to update their Nominated EPS Pharmacy:

    Note - In England, if you disable/enable Update without enabling/disabling View a message displays and Update is changed automatically.
See Enabling Pharmacy Nomination in the Patient Online Services Help Centre for full details.
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